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Georgia Stanway is joint top scorer in the tournament with five goalsEngland women reached the Under-20 World Cup semi-finals for the first time by beating the Netherlands 2-1 in Vannes, France. Victoria Pelova put the Netherlands ahead after 12 minutes, but Georgia Stanway equalised eight minutes later. Manchester City’s Stanway scored the winner from a…

Summary Geraint Thomas was the first Welsh winner of the Tour de France More than 1,000 people gather at the Senedd for the start of the homecoming celebrations Thomas and a group of young cyclists will then ride from St Mary Street to Cardiff Castle “],area:[1,” “,””],col:[2,” “],legend:[1,” “,””],param:[1,” “],tr:[2,” “],optgroup:u,option:u,caption:l,colgroup:l,tbody:l,tfoot:l,thead:l,td:c,th:c},f=[“circle”,”clipPath”,”defs”,”ellipse”,”g”,”image”,”line”,”linearGradient”,”mask”,”path”,”pattern”,”polygon”,”polyline”,”radialGradient”,”rect”,”stop”,”text”,”tspan”];f.forEach(function(e){d[e]=p,s[e]=!0}),e.exports=o}).call(t,n(2))},function(e,t,n){“use strict”;var o=n(16),r=o({INSERT_MARKUP:null,MOVE_EXISTING:null,REMOVE_NODE:null,SET_MARKUP:null,TEXT_CONTENT:null});e.exports=r},function(e,t,n){“use strict”;var o=n(27),r=n(96),a=n(81),i=function(e,t){e.textContent=t};o.canUseDOM&&(“textContent”in…

Moscon was also disqualified from last year’s World Championship road race after hanging onto a team carTeam Sky rider Gianni Moscon has been banned for five weeks by the UCI, after he tried to hit another rider during stage 15 of this year’s Tour de France. The Italian, 24, was disqualified from the race after…

Geraint Thomas was racing in his ninth Tour de FranceThere was a time when Geraint Thomas appeared to be blessed with talent but cursed by the rider it made him. A rider described by Sir Dave Brailsford as one who could do everything, a racer who seemed destined instead to ride for others, who kept…

Thomas has worn the yellow jersey every day since taking control of the race on stage 11 Tour de France, Paris Coverage: Live text and BBC Radio 5 live commentary of the final stage from 15:00 BST Geraint Thomas’ Tour de France victory should not be considered a shock win because his entire season has…

Tour de France: Geraint Thomas heads to Paris to be crowned winner – BBC Sport ]]> Summary GB’s Geraint Thomas to be crowned Tour champion in Paris Thomas will become third British winner of the race Dutchman Tom Dumoulin to finish second Four-time champion Chris Froome to finish third The 116km final stage ends on…

Thomas becomes the third Briton to win the Tour de France – a sixth British victory in seven yearsBritain’s Geraint Thomas is set to win the Tour de France after maintaining his overall lead on the penultimate stage of the race, a 31km time trial. The Team Sky rider, 32, finished third behind Tom Dumoulin…

Geraint Thomas edged closer to winning the Tour de France by finishing second to Primoz Roglic on stage 19, the final day in the mountains. The Briton outsprinted closest rival Tom Dumoulin on the run-in to Laurens to pick up six bonus seconds and extend his overall lead. Thomas leads Dutchman Dumoulin by two minutes,…